Bloodlines / Marcello Fois ; translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fois, Marcello, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Mazzarella, Silvester, translator.

Standardized Title:

Stirpe. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

History.

Europe.

Life change events--Fiction.

Life change events.

Europe--History--20th century--Fiction.

Sardinia (Italy)--Fiction.

Sardinia (Italy).

Italy--Sardinia.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

History.

Novels.

Physical Description:

269 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Verba Mundi edition.

Place of Publication:

Jaffrey, New Hampshire : David R. Godine, Publisher, 2017.

Summary:

"When Guiseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the blacksmith realizes that he has found the son and heir he never knew he needed. And when a few years later, Michele himself looks down from the ladder on which he is working and sees the beautiful Mercede, he knows that he has found the woman he will marry. So begins Fois' magisterial domestic epic of the lives, loves, and losses of the Chironi family as they struggle through war and fascism. Deftly endowing familial horrors with mythical resonance, Fois creates a Dantesque triptych that inscribes the history of twentieth-century Sardinia, and sweeping changes across Europe, onto the historical tablet of a single misbegotten household"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"First published in Italian as Stirpe by Giulio Einaudi editore, Turin, in 2009 . First published in Great Britain in 2014 by MacLehose Press"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9781567925852

1567925855

OCLC:

950450931